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David Hockney, OM, CH, RA, (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire andKensington, London.
An important contributor to the Pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century.
Hockney wasborn in Bradford, England on 9 July 1937 to Laura and Kenneth Hockney and was educated first at Wellington Primary School, then Bradford Grammar School, Bradford College of Artand the Royal College of Art in London, where he met R. B. Kitaj. While he was there Hockney said he felt at home, he took pride and success in his work here. While a student atthe Royal College of Art, Hockney was featured in the exhibition Young Contemporaries – alongside Peter Blake – that announced the arrival of British Pop art. He was associatedwith the movement, but his early works also display expressionist elements, not dissimilar to certain works by Francis Bacon
n 1963 Hockney visited New York, making contact withAndy Warhol. A subsequent visit to California, where he lived for many years, inspired Hockney to make a series of paintings of swimming pools in Los Angeles, using thecomparatively new acrylic medium and rendered in a highly realistic style using vibrant colours.
Hockney is openly gay.[5] He was born with synesthesia; he sees synesthetic colours tomusical stimuli. In general, this does not show up in his painting or photography artwork very much. However, it is a common underlying principle in his construction of stage setsfor various ballets and operas, where he bases the background colours and lighting upon his own seen colours while listening to the music of the theatre piece he is working on.